This is the fourth in a series of articles about some of the findings from the 2012 Big Broadcast Survey (BBS), a global study of broadcast industry trends, technology purchasing plans, and benchmarking of broadcast technology vendor brands. Nearly 10,000 broadcast professionals in 100+ countries took part in the 2012 BBS, making it the largest and most comprehensive market study ever conducted in the broadcast industry.

This is the first in a series of posts about how broadcast technology vendors were ranked and benchmarked on a variety of metrics by the respondents to the 2012 BBS.

Each year, as part of the Big Broadcast Survey (BBS), we ask a global sample of broadcast professionals to rank a variety of technology vendor brands on a wide range of metrics including “overall opinion,” “change of opinion,” and brand drivers including “innovation,” “quality,” “reliability,” “value for money,” and “great customer service.”

We use this information to create a series of reports, which through benchmarking and industry “league tables” provides a view as to how each vendor is positioned in the market relative to the industry as a whole, as well as against their direct competitors.

This post looks at how the global sample of broadcast professionals who participated in the 2012 BBS ranked their overall opinion of the 152 broadcast technology vendors we covered in the study. You can find a chart with the complete list of vendor brands covered in the 2012 BBS here.

Please note that inclusion of any brand in the tables in this article is dependent on available sample size. The minimum sample size for inclusion in these charts is 30 respondents per cut of the data. Therefore it is possible that a highly regarded brand was excluded from these findings based on sample size.

How These Results Were Calculated

Respondents were asked to rank their opinion of broadcast technology vendor brands on a scale of 1-10 — with 10 being best in the market, and 1 being worst in the market.

The top 30 ranked brands for overall opinion are shown below for both the global sample of all respondents as well as for all respondents in each of the geographic regions.

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Results are shown in two ways:

An overall industry “league table” that shows the 30 highest ranked vendors for the metric “overall opinion.” The data in this chart is broken out globally and regionally.

An analysis of the “frequency” of appearance in the “overall opinion league table”

The top 30 ranked brands for overall opinion are shown below for both the global sample of all respondents as well as for all respondents in each of the geographic regions.

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Please note that in all cases, these results are shown in alphabetical order, NOT in the order in which they were ranked by respondents to the survey.

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2012 BBS Overall Brand Opinion League Table

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A total of 48 broadcast technology vendor brands are included in this table, (up from 43 last year), illustrating the geographic variation of opinion, which will be discussed later.

In terms of frequency of appearance in this table:

15 brands appear four times, meaning they were ranked in the top 30 globally and in each of the three geographic regions. For comparison, in the 2011 BBS (when we covered 118 brands) there were 19 brands that appeared in the top 30 globally and in each of the 3 regions.

10 brands appear three times. For comparison, in the 2011 BBS (when we covered 118 brands) there were 9 brands that appeared three times.

7 brands appear two times. For comparison, in the 2011 BBS (when we covered 118 brands) there were 2 brands that appeared twice.

16 brands appear one time, which demonstrates that some brands are strongest in one geographic area. For comparison, in the 2011 BBS (when we covered 118 brands) there were 13 brands that appeared one time.

Analysis of the data shows that are some clear market leaders on a global basis, while others are strong on a regional basis.

A breakdown of how many times each company appears in the ranking shows how many times each brand appears in the chart above.

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Brands appearing four times in the 2012 BBS Overall Brand Opinion League Table:

Frequency Analysis of the Brands in the in the 2012 BBS Overall Brand Opinion League Table:

The table below, which shows the global and regional performance for each brand in the top 30 ranking of overall opinion, provides a better understanding of where each brand was highly ranked for overall opinion.

Frequency Analysis of Brands in the 2012 BBS Overall Brand Opinion League Table

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The frequency chart shows some interesting geographic variation in the data.

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Appearing in the top 30 “overall opinion” ranking globally + one region

Two brands managed to achieve a top 30 ranking globally, despite being in the top 30 of only one of the three geographic regions.

Aja Video, Grass Valley, Solid State Logic, RTW, Studer

Appearing in the top 30 “overall opinion” ranking in one region

The following 13 brands did not make the top 30 in the global league table of overall opinion, but they did appear in the top 30 overall opinion ranking in one of the geographic regions:

Appearing in the top 30 “overall opinion” ranking only in Asia-Pacific

Electro-Voice, Harris, HP, NEC, Omneon, Thomson

Appearing in the top 30 “overall opinion” ranking only in the Americas

Blackmagic Design, Evertz, RTS Intercom Systems, Telex

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Please keep in mind when reviewing this information that all data these charts are presented in alphabetical order, not in the order brands were ranked by respondents to the 2012 BBS. Also, the charts in this posting measure the responses of all non-vendor participants in the 2012 BBS respondents, regardless of their company type, company size, geographic location, job title and budget for broadcast technology products.

In order to get full value from this data, it is necessary to evaluate these results on a granular basis. If you would like more information, please contact Devoncroft Partners.

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All data in this article measures the responses of all non-vendor participants in the 2012 BBS, regardless of organization type, organization size, job title or geographic location. Responses of individual organization types or geographic locations may be very different. Granular analysis of these results is available as part of the full 2012 BBS Global Market Report. For more information about this report, please contact Devoncroft Partners.

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Devoncroft Partners has published a variety of reports from 2012 BBS data. For more information, please get in touch.